请不要把它仅仅当成一场不可思议的非现实爱情历险，当你曾经、正在、或者将来在自己爱情的旅途中触动到类似些许感觉的话，它更是一段为你谱写真实爱情乐章的暮光传奇。相遇那年，他们同样17岁；她出生几个月就被妈妈抱着逃离小镇那年，他已经17岁；而有一天她终落得垂垂暮年，他却将仍然保持17岁的青春容颜……生命时间轮盘的运转，对他而言是凝固的，而对她却是飞速流动的。他的青春永驻，而她的青春终将腐朽。

  PREFACE

I'd never given much thought to how I would die — though I'd had reason
enough in the last few months — but even if I had, I would not have
imagined it like this.

I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of
the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I
loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.

I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now.
But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision.
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's
not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me.

序幕

    我从未多想我将如何死去，虽然在过去的几个月我有足够的理由去思考这个问题，但是即使我有想过，也从未想到死亡将如此地降临。

    我屏息静气地望着房间的另一头，远远地凝视着猎人那深邃的眼眸，而他则以愉快的目光回应我。

    这无疑是一个不错的死法，死在别人——我钟爱的人的家里。甚至可以说轰轰烈烈。这应该算是死得其所。

    我知道如果我没有来福克斯的话，此刻也就不必面对死亡。但是，尽管我害怕，也不会后悔当初的决定。当生活给了你一个远远超过你期望的美梦，那么当这一切结束时也就没有理由再去伤心。

    猎人带着友好的微笑，从容不迫地走向我——来了却我的生命。